Antiquarium

Museum inaugurated in 2009, located in the Crypt of the Church of the Most Holy Immaculate Conception, in the ancient medieval village of Capocastello.

Gallery

History

The Museum preserves and exhibits objects related to the natural world, science and technology grouped into sections: mineralogy (rocks and minerals), topography (surveying instruments from the mid-19th century to the 1970s), history of topography (working reproductions of instruments for measuring the land from Antiquity to the Late Renaissance), calculating machines (late 19th - around 1970), didactic-scientific models (1920 - 1970), history of drawing (1950 - 1980) with a vast documentary sec read more

The Museum preserves and exhibits objects related to the natural world, science and technology grouped into sections: mineralogy (rocks and minerals), topography (surveying instruments from the mid-19th century to the 1970s), history of topography (working reproductions of instruments for measuring the land from Antiquity to the Late Renaissance), calculating machines (late 19th - around 1970), didactic-scientific models (1920 - 1970), history of drawing (1950 - 1980) with a vast documentary section. The exhibition itinerary begins with some ceramic fragments, iron and bronze buckles, devotional medals and a series of refined metal buttons, found during the excavations conducted in the rooms of the crypt itself and datable between the 17th and 19th centuries. We then move on to the fine glazed ceramic tableware, unchromed, unchromed painted with spiral motifs and protomajolica, found inside the Castle in association with rough-body pottery intended for cooking food (jars, pans, lids) and datable between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Then we move on to glazed ceramic artifacts with blue designs, plates and cups in sgraffito, ranging from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the modern age. The itinerary concludes with some examples of mugs, bottles, bowls and oil lamps in monochrome white and polychrome enamel, datable between the 15th and 17th centuries. read less